Sentence examples for doomed pursuit from inspiring English sources
A songwriter's failures, of course, do not often end in the jaws of a croc, but crafting a song is also a doomed pursuit.
This year saw the reprinting of his brilliant and bleak novel The Easter Parade (Methuen), the tale of an intelligent woman's doomed pursuit of happiness.
Like his literary progenitor, the jet-setting John Self of Amis's 1984 novel, "Money: A Suicide Note," Lionel is in hot — desperate, tormented and doomed — pursuit of whatever gratifications might be wrung from the free fall and decline of contemporary society.
Perhaps no work of fiction has returned to me more often over the past eight years in China than F. Scott Fitzgerald's slippery tale of James Gatz of North Dakota, who thrust himself into a new world in desperate, doomed pursuit of love and ambition a life in which the "dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it".
His most recent book, "Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness," is newly out in paperback.
Promiscuous: 'Portnoy's Complaint' and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by Bernard Avishai (Yale, £18.99) The celebrated masturbatory burlesque Portnoy's Complaint sold millions, made Philip Roth famous, and blazed a trail for countless gross-out teen comedies.
"Freud said: 'The pursuit of happiness is doomed.' It's a doomed quest because it's fuelled by infantile fantasies," added Perry.
The trial doomed his pursuit of a fourth mayoral term in 1990, and landed him in prison for six months on two charges, neither of them felonies.
Franklin wanted an image of Moses parting the Red Sea, a doomed pharaoh in hot pursuit; Jefferson wanted an image of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness.
Tom Cruise is thundering across the battlefields of Meiji Restoration Japan in "The Last Samurai," in pursuit of the doomed Bushido honor code and the enlightened spirituality of Zen Buddhism.
Keith is doomed and hamstrung in his pursuit of Sheherazade not only by his legion of neuroses, and a vestige of old-fashioned loyalty to Lily, but also by rival suitors – an absent (and very tall) Pentecostalist, and an ever-present (and very short) Italian count.
